It’s Official . Farm Income Has Jumped, And the Rest of the Year Should Be Good FARM INCOME is running well above last year, according to the most recent figures released by the federal government. Prices of farm products are well above last year and are expected to average high er for the year than in 1957. As the new harvest approaches, with prospects that supplies of some farm pro ducts will increase, notably vegetables, hogs, fed cattle and eggs, current levels of prices and incomes may move toward the levels of 1957. But even if prices do slump, farm op erators’ realized net income in 1958 is ex pected to be from five to 10 per cent above the 11-1/2 billion realized in 1957. This increase will reflect somewhat higher cash receipts from the products that farmers sell combined with cash income from Soil Bank payments. This increased income will, however, be partially offset by increased production costs, notably feeder cattle, interest and taxes. les and novels based on the Bible, and If these are m or der, then a movie is in or der. But if a pic ture or a book uses Bible ma terial it should Dr. Foreman use it and not mis-use it It may serve to bimg out some truths about the real Ten Command ments if we take this oppoitumty to point out some of the wiong angles of that famous picture. ■— The Wrong Title In the first place, the title Is Lancaster Farming misleading The picture Is not about the Ten Commandments. Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly Approximately ten minutes out of Alfred C Alspach, Publisher; Robert „ „ E Best, Editor, Robert G Campbell, ‘ hree hours and 50 minutes are Advertising Director- Robert J. devoted to the Ten Command- Wiggins, Circulation Director. ments, and then they are neither P«bUshed IS ev«y Fr“ dly b'y OCTORiIIO explained nor applied except in a NEWSPAPERS, Quarryville, Pa. Superficial way The picture tells Phone SXerlmg 6-2132 or Lancaster, the story, mostly Imaginary, of , . ~ , , Express 4-3047. the unknown years of Moses as - quarters for the inmates The in- Entered as Second-Class matter at c , . „ sane were removed to the Qtate the Post omce > Quarryville, Pa., u-der f n Egyptian prince Some of it is . sane were removed to the state Act of Marc i, 3) 1979 in line with the Bible, for m -75 Years Ago Asylum near Harrisburg. The Subsection Rates: P er y ' ar g stance, one gets a good Idea of sj ck and injured were taken to a cen t s . * what it was to live as an ansto '‘How Longfellow Wrote His hospital. crat in ancient Egypt, as Moses, Poems” was the title of an inter- did. Some of it is out of line with estmg article back m 1883. Ac- 5() Y ears AgO - mlg ht place her belongings under the Blble altogether, such as the cording to an anonymous writer ' j - , story of the killing which led to “The Psalm of Life” came into For half a century Pennsyl- T , ar , npar ‘ *.u at a ii ).u e Moses’ flight from Egypt Most existence on a bright summer vania’s public school system has pp °* 14 casts no light on the Bible morn in July, 1830, at Cambridge, been subpected to debate and wearing apparaal could be placed at all, but Is the producer’s idea as the poet sat between two win- criticism Back in May, 1908, Dr. ln the locker except their Mer. of how it might have happened,— dows, at a small table, in the Frank Woodbury, in addressing ry Widow” hats As a result _ the deas zanging from the probable corner of his chamber At that the Pennsylvania State associa- bat * to eß k® r worn or o e ig y unproba le. time he expressed his feelings, tion of Hospitals for the Insane, pßed on top of thg locker. The No Piece of Fireworks when recovering from a deep af- declared a large number of chil- girls refused to allow the latter And this brings us to our pomt. fliction, and kept it unpublished dren then being educated in the and the company balked at the What exactly is wrong with the, for some time public schools of Philadelphia former. Meantime an expert Ten Commandments part of this’ One of the best known of all would be fit subjects for asylums trouble adjuster had been em r _,, Longfellow’s shorter poems is for the insane m their mature ployed by the company to solve jg IJIO lime • “Excelsior” That one word hap- years the problem, pened to catch his eye on an Dr Woodbury stated that un autumn evening in 1841, on a der the Philadelphia mode of edu- Eltße Max Crockett, Jr, fifteen torn piece of newspaper, which cation the brains of children mont hs old, died at Lewisburg immediately set fire to his im. were ‘being filled with rot” He Tenn, of wounds inflicted by a agination Picking up a letter scored the school system saying rooster The boy fell in the yard received that day from Charles that it failed to meet the needs and the rooster attacked him Sumner, he crowded the verses 0 f juveniles training and also sinking its spurs deeply into the of the poem upon the back of it failed to develop intellectual child’s head. “The Story of Evangelin” was qualities m the children OC V A suggstd to Hawthorn by a friend He asserted that the children in Years AgO who wished him to do a romance the public schools of Philadelphia M M qq p f based on the suggestion Haw were being educated in a series ’pd thorne did not quite coincide with of technicalities which were en J , , „ QS , the idea and turned it over to tirely unpractical. These techm ed V l6 a 4 395 pounds Longfellow, who saw mit all calities, he maintained, were fill She had re . ceived °^ erS t t 0 Jom the elements of a deep and mg the biams of children with a CirCUSeS and vaudeVllle trou P s ‘ tender idol lot of useless facts Phfcdehfhia* si TO RECOGNIZE RABIES AS DANGEROUS c . . , ' Vn cif» J a Max Smith 11 15 quite evident that our foxes in this part of Seventy-five years ago fire de- William Kuhl, a State Fish In 1925 she tiaveled with a the state are dangerous from the standpoint of stroked every building on the Warden from York, Pa , had two medicine show an Canada. In spieading rabies, also, stray dogs should be regarded as dangerous. grounds of Pennsylvania’s Dau- men arrested and convicted of 1933 she planned to visit the These animals, when infected, will attack both humans and domes phm County Alms House except fishing for shad within a quarter Chicago World’s Fair either as a tic animals There is little cure or treatment for rabies. Caution and the laundry and school house of a mile of the dam under con- fat lady or just a visitor. prevention is very important. Farmers and residents of the rural The blaze fanned by strong struction across the Susquehanna ‘ - ~ aieas can help eliminate this disease by destroying foxes and stray wind, was first discovered in the River at McCall Ferry At that In Lancaster County, fifty years dogs. large frame stable located near time a State Law provided ‘ that ago this week, Howard Mowerv, the three story main building no one shall catch shad within West Willow Rl, went on a visit TO ADJUST CORN POPULATION Corn planting time is approach- During the first quarter of this year, the annual rate of farm operators’ real ized net incomes appeared to be about $l3 billion, compared with a rate of $11.7 billion in the same quarter of 1957. The 117 billion prediction proved to be near ly accurate last year as the total for the year proved to be $ll 5 billion in realized net income. Pennsylvania farmers have marketed $119,109,000 worth of products in the first three months of this year, an increase BY JACK REICHARD When the dwelling house a Quarter of a mile below the to an unoccupied two and one-half growers are urged to observe their plant population; the caught fn * the and lus dam” story iramehouse he owned near ';’ enc * \°' vais '' aac^s m order to get higher yields. Popula dssislants to the insane depait- > Smdhville, when he discovered lons thousand plants per acre should be the goal on ment, forcing the excited in Feminine Headgear that someone had tried to burn heavy fertile soils With normal lainfall and with modern fertilizer mates including 21 fcunales and fiea'es Problem For the building He found straw applications the grower should get more corn than the usual 12 17 males fiom their qua l lei s AH Telephone Co. Officials piled under a stairway leading thousand population The use of a complete fertilizer at planting wore saved, but a number of Fifty years ago this week the into the basement The stairway time (300 pounds of 5-10-10) is highly recommended, them put up a dcspeiate fight ‘Haiv Widow” hat caused con and mists were scorched, but One of the patients was severly sdirahle trouble at the new had faj]ed tQ ]gmte Mowery noh . 10 PLAN FOR TEMPORARY FORAGE CROPS Many livestock burned when hu cloth,ng caught 850,000 exchange of the Penn fied state Pollce who lnvestl produce:s have need for moie pasture during the hot summer months om /f°.he Sh= WaS P. ,d P Ut Y ° rk ’ S Sweet Sudan Grass (Piper variety) at the rate of 45 pounds per acre °Thc hie uas'Tend,.nth stall Vhc designers of the now build- When C II Wilcox, Baraboo TTT of P r °ductivc for this area Seed early in May until od whin one of the- employees mg pnried themselves upon their W]S tnnk . in hl _ anto _ 0 Jul> 1 and ll wIU be ready to S l£Ue 111 about SIX weeks Ome The lit a p'pe or cigar mth • stable, caii'nl anticipation of all form ' . . m vse of soybeans and forage soighum at the rate of V. bushel of ign’tm i the- hay The loss was nine needs while fitting out the bdc a broke loose beans and 25 pounds of soighum (Hegari or Black Amber variety) estimated at more than 5200,000 apartments of the ladies Their ancl 1 oiled a half mile, hurdling per aero Will make liberal amounts ol good quality silage this fall. Tents were pioeuied and erect chief source of pnde was a steel o '<? r two fences and a woodpile, Plan to base your feeding program on good forage crops this season ed iiv,ai me lums as temporaly locker room, wdiere every girl before it stopped and next winter. This Week* Lancaster Farming of nearly $6 million over last year during the same period. While production expenses have risen about three per cent nationally, and per haps even more in Pennsylvania due to the need to buy feed and hay which were locally in short supply, this still leaves a good rise in net income in the state. This rise in income on the farm in the face of a national recession is some what of a paradox. Usually farm prices are the first to fall in a recession. They fall faster, farther and stall there longer than any other segment of the economy. But in the current recession, the farm income situation is apparently unaffected by the softness of the market in other areas There are several reasons that have been brought forward to explain away this phenomena. Some economists say that the farmer has been suffering his own private recession for the past two or three years and that this general eco nomic recession has tended to bring things back into better balance again. Add to this the money in the econ omy from Soil Bank payments, unem ployment compensation, and the “roll ing” layoffs that have typified this reces sion, it would seem the total purchasing power of the nation has not suffered too greatly insofar as food purchases are concerned. 4-A—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 2, 1958 BlbU Material: Exodus 19—20; Deu teronomy 5 Devotional Readings Psalm 119 137- 144 Laws of God Lesson for May 4, 1958 THE moving picture, “The Ten Commandments,” wiU proba bly still be going strong at the time this column appears in print. Some of our readers will have seer, it and liked it; some will feel that the Bible should never be made Into a movie at all Now there have been in numerable stor- By MAX SMITH County Agricultural Agent TO PRACTICE GOOD HERD MOVEMENT Milk producers are faced with the early pasture season when odors and flavors may mean reduc ed income The herd shoud not be allowed to graze within four to five hours of milking time and if kept confined, the barn should be well ventilated It might be well to allow young stock to graze garlic-infested areas before the milking herd is e*posed to this annual problem. The feed ing of hay to the milking herd each dav is strongly recommended both morning and evening if possible. moving picture? It’« a email trac tion of the whole colossal speo-j tacle; but it Is an important frac tion. Three misleading notions which viewers who are not fa miliar with the Bible might take away can be'mentioned. One: In the picture, the _Ten Command ments are a piece of celestial fiie works. They do not come to Moses’ mind nor through it. A flery thinfe looking like something; out of a Disney comedy stieaks down and carves the Command-' ments, one by one, on a polished mountain side, while Moses cow ers In helpless fear. Later on Moses (in the picture, not the Bible) “throws the book”—the two tombstone-size tablets at Dathan, and in a terrific explo sion the earth opens a fid swal lows him up. Thus the Law of God is shown as something alto gether out of this world, a sort of celestial magic, a soit of super hydrogen bomb This is a long way fiom the truth about God’s law as Paul saw it (Romans 1:14, 15), written on-the hearts of men. Mo One-way Religion In the second place, this picture leaves out, where it ought by all means to be, the Bible story (Exodus 24) which shows that the people accepted this Law or these Laws, and covenanted to keep them. Religion is not a one-way street. Religion is not God mak ing a fireworks-law and throwing it at people’s heads Religion as the Bible presents it is always covenant religion, that Is to say two-way religion. Light might as well be darkness unless it is seen. Revelation reveals nothing until men respond to it San One Love Such a God? And this brmgs up perhaps the most senous pomt of all In the Bible, every law of God comes from His Grace; that is to say. His Will is not an arbitrary set of oiders imposed on us by a hos tile, still less an impersonal Power, but comes from a loving, personal God If God were leally nothing else but the terrifying, fiery, unpredictable, indescribable bemg of this picturs, what possi ble meaning could there be in the commandment (Deut 6:5) to love God with all our hearts? Love may be less spectacular than a whnl ing pillar of fire, —less useful fop a “colossal'’ show. But when God finally revealed his real Self, it was not in a perfect flame, but in a perfect Person. Only as we know and Jr>re God personally can w« appi'tciate and love his Law (Beaed on outlines copyrighted by th« Division of Christian Education. Na tional Connell of tho Churches of Christ in tho U. S A. Released by Community Press Service.) t> • .1 I
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